SmartAqua and Wiley join forces
SmartAqua and Wiley, with Australian bases and a global footprint have teamed up, combining decades of international experience in the aquafarming and seafood processing sector to provide turnkey services for land-based aquaculture, recirculating aquaculture systems project management, processing plant design and construction. SmartAqua has a 26-year history in aquaculture consulting around the globe, with a growing focus on land-based farming and processing operations.Wiley has navigated the food facility project delivery business for over a century with a large, experienced engineering, design, and delivery team.
The Wiley/SmartAqua team are working on multiple projects with some larger players in the RAS space, as well as existing sea cage operators.They have seen international travel restrictions due to COVID-19 cause a massive decline in seafood import and export – both from the supply and demand side. As a result, we have seen a global push for domestic food production for food security as countries can no longer rely on the import market.
Alastair Smart, MD of SmartAqua said this joint approach makes for a great team:
‘SmartAqua have worked with
Wiley over many years.With the rapid expansion into land-based farming and the need for turnkey project management of a land-based facility integrated with processing, led to us deciding to formally merge our skillsets’.
Wiley’s Logan Ashmole, Senior Project Manager said the relationship is working well:
‘We are seeing an increasing number of proposed RAS projects, particularly for salmon-farming - there are more than 50 RAS proposed projects (and counting) to farm salmon on land.The total estimated production of these announced projects up to 2050 is equal to 25% of total current salmon production at around 600,000 tonnes.’